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The Spirit of Lukiškės: a Prison As Microcosm of Modern Vilna 42 the Spirit of Lukiškės: a Prison As Microcosm of Modern Vilna The Spirit of Lukiškės: a Prison as Microcosm of Modern Vilna 42 The Spirit of Lukiškės: a Prison as Microcosm of Modern Vilna BY FELIX ACKERMANN* This article analyses the Lukiškės Prison as a microcosm of the 20th century history of Vilna and the Vilna region. It tries to bring together different historical narratives on Łukiszki, Lukiškės and Лукiшкi i.e. the Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian narratives respectively. The idea is to develop a more interconnected story, one in which Lithuanian, Polish, Jewish, Russian, Soviet and also German histories, rather than being taken exclusively from one another, are seen as a part of a greater whole. The goal of this paper is to pull together these loose ends by demonstrating one succinct point: that Lukiškės Prison is a shared space, which incorporates modern strategies of exclusion, punishment, discipline and destruction. Built as a prison in the borderlands of the Russian Empire, Lukiškės was a social microcosm that was shared by quiet different social groups that opposed imperial rule. Instead of becoming heterotopian spaces of exclusion, Lukiškės throughout the late 19th and the first two decades of the 20th century became a hotbed of political struggle in the Northeast of the Russian Empire. Excluding political enemies from the strictly limited imperial public sphere in the city of Vilna, the imprisonment brought them into the inner universe of ideas, programs and action. Lukiškės, despite the energy spend on tsarist style re-education programs, remained a critical space where detainees were not just well informed about the situation outside but ready for future political action. In terms of military action the power over the prison was a crucial moment during any forced takeover of Vilna during the course of the 20th century. The high concentration of political prisoners of any authority that had recently lost power made it a valuable reservoir from which future cadres could be drawn * Dr. Felix Ackermann holds an MSc in Russian and post-Soviet studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in cultural studies from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Since autumn 2011 he is a visiting DAAD Associate Professor for Applied Humanities at European Humanities University, where he teaches at the German Studies Centre and the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism. A draft version of this text was presented and discussed during Colloquium Vilnense on 26 May 2015 at European Humanities University in the frame of a workshop on Belarusian Studies. The author is particularly grateful for comments by Lynn Liubamersky, Mark Berman, Volha Sasunkievič and Siarhej Liubimaŭ. He is also grateful for the feedback given by participants on a very earlier version of this text organised by Omer Bartov and Eric Weitz with support of the Guggenheim Foundation. Downloaded from Brill.com10/01/2021 01:02:19AM via free access 43 The Journal of Belarusian Studies and, therefore, a powerful factor in on-going local fights. Still, after the end of the Russian Empire, prisons as a whole remained spaces of social control and discon- tent. With shifting state agendas after World War I (WWI), Lukiškės increasingly became a space of the growing politics of ethnic segregation and homogenisation. Leading up to and following World War II (WWII) Lukiškės had the necessary in- frastructure in place to support a repressive police apparatus, a launching point for the deportation of unwanted elements, state-sponsored mass murder and genocide. With the Soviet takeover in mid to late 1944 Lukiškės again was used by Soviet agencies to separate and punish members of the Polish underground movement as well as Lithuanians, who were suspected of being anti-Soviet. Again Lukiškės became the starting point for deportation to the Far East of Eurasia. Built in 1904 Lukiškės Prison is of particular interest because it was formerly the most modern prison complex in the Russian Empire. The prison was the only one that officially incorporated Russian-Orthodox, Roman-Catholic and Jewish places of worship into the heart of its infrastructure. To this end, this article will combine a cultural analysis of space, religion and surveillance and the various accounts of Lukiškės as a central hub for the exclusion of political, religious and national actors under changing political regimes throughout the 20th century. More specifically, it will discuss the role of religion and its spatial representation in Lukiškės Prison. This article is part of a larger body of research on applied humanities in order to elaborate the relationship between theory, practice and academic self-reflection in the post-Soviet production of knowledge. For this research, it is particularly important to be visible as an acting scholar, who shapes the subject of their research by asking questions in an active manner from a perspective shaped by a contemporary setting. The text starts with a report from the prison written in the early 21st century, as part of a seminar at a Belarusian university in exile in Lithuania. The article uses the first historically known Latin form of the city name of Vilna, because all other names since the late 19th century represent national claims on the former capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Wilno as a Polish city, Vilnius as a Lithuanian city, Vilne as the Yiddish Jerusalem of the North and lastly Viĺnia as a Belarusian city. The focus on the Lukiškės Prison links together the various political movements rooting in the late 19th century and their relationship vis-á-vis each other without favouring one over another. At the same time the Lithuanian geographical name of Lukiškės is used for the prison, as far as the prisons name refers to its geographical location. The Polish version of the prison’s name, Łukiszki, is used to underline the Polish context by which the inmates and city dwellers perceived the prison during in the inter war period and its aftermath. Downloaded from Brill.com10/01/2021 01:02:19AM via free access The Spirit of Lukiškės: a Prison as Microcosm of Modern Vilna 44 Excursion to the Panoption: Exploring the Present of the Past To get to the human souls you have to climb over hundreds of fences and enter through even more doors. A place where each of your moves have been observed, were somebody else decides for you what will be done next. And the consciousness of the infinite nature of your imprisoned existence, in the midst of Vilnius, where behind many layers of barbed wire, happy and unhappy people try to live as if they were in freedom; they don’t sense the on-going surveillance being carried out all over the compound – as there is no need to hide it in a place like a prison.1 With these words Natallia Nenakaromava, a first year student from Minsk opens her essay on the Lukiškės prison. After visiting the historical compound in the centre of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, Nenakaromava is interested in the way surveillance is carried out in the prison, one which was built more than a hun- dred years ago in 1904 under tsarist rule, and which went on to become a hotbed of political and cultural change in the region. Her unusual excursion to Lukiškės Pris- on was part of a seminar on ‘The Spatial Dimension of Knowledge Production’.2 After having read texts like Michel Foucault’s classic writings on surveillance in modern societies, the excursion situated students in a new learning environment and made them think beyond Foucault’s abstract argument (Foucault 1975, 195– 219). The currently functioning prison today is officially called Lukiškių Tardymo Izoliatorius-Kalėjmas. Another first year Belarusian student wrote in an essay after their visit that, ‘Although the general shape of the main buildings of Lukiškės Prison is a Y, and from the circular part of the tower straight corridors provide space for the prisoners, its overall shape does not resemble that of a panopticon. The tower in the four-story building does not allow for a supervisor to simply take a seat in the very centre and view all of prison’s activity. This is why each corridor has a person charged with independently carrying out surveillance. The prison was built in such a manner as to not allow prisoners to communicate with one another’.3 The student’s classmate describes how he entered the prison, Our identities are checked upon arrival. We have to cross two iron doors and after another identity check, a large gate was electronical- 1 Natallia Nenakaromava handed in the essay at European Humanities University on 10 June 2012 in Russian. 2 I have been teaching since 2011 at European Humanities University (EHU) as associate professor for applied humanities. My peculiar position as a visiting German scholar at a Belarusian university in exile in Lithuania has permitted me to experiment with various teaching methods. My research on applied humanities is supported by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 3 This is a fragment of Nastassia Chazianina’s essay on Lukiškės handed in at EHU on 10 June 2012 in Russian. Downloaded from Brill.com10/01/2021 01:02:19AM via free access 45 The Journal of Belarusian Studies ly opened. Only after this checkpoint did we enter the main building, a former Christian-Orthodox church, which is now a space for cul- tural events within the prison. If you wish to enter the complex any further, you have to pass through a giant iron gate, which is opened by a nearby guard. This is the main barrier between the outside and the part of Lukiškės, where all of the inmates are imprisoned. The emptiness is discernible after we cross through the checkpoint.
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